Strokes

(asked on 7th March 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Oral Answer of 7 February 2017, Official Report, column 226, to the hon. Member for St Ives, what steps his Department is taking to produce a detailed implementation plan to improve stroke services in England.


Answered by
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David Mowat
This question was answered on 15th March 2017

The National Health Service will continue to build on the successes of the current Stroke Strategy. There has been significant, sustained improvement in the quality of stroke care over the last decade and we will continue to deliver our ambition for truly world leading care. That is why the NHS rigorously audits the quality of stroke care across the country each year. It means that we now have some of the fastest improvements in hospital recovery rates for stroke and heart attacks in Europe.

Decisions on whether the stroke strategy should be renewed are a matter for NHS England. As NHS England has moved away from disease specific strategies towards guidance that is more cross cutting, and because the stroke strategy remains valid and implementation of it continues, NHS England has no current plans to renew it.

NHS England’s approach to priority setting was set out in its Five Year Forward View, available at:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/5yfv-web.pdf

NHS England makes decisions about commissioning on advice from its Clinical Priorities Advisory Group, full details of which can be found at:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/cpag/

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